All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 24 2011 // Middleton, Wis.-based Capitol Insurance Companies has announced three promotions. Kevin A. Klestinski has been named vice president of property and casualty underwriting, Richard F. Boettner has been promoted to director...
Feb 24 2011 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) has named its 2010 Top Insurance Company Partners.This year, CAA expanded its annual “Top 4 Insurance Partner” awards to include the top four insurance...
Feb 24 2011 // Capitol Insurance Cos. of Middleton, Wis., announced that Kevin A. Klestinski has been named vice president of Property & Casualty Underwriting, Richard F. Boettner has been promoted to director of Underwriting –...
Feb 24 2011 // London-based Cooper Gay, the independent wholesale, reinsurance and specialist retail insurance broker, has appointed Jeremy Austen as Head of Broking for its Singapore office.He reports to Asia Pacific Regional Managing...
Feb 23 2011 // Crouse and Associates Insurance Services has added Frank Cardoso to its Production Team as a senior property and casualty broker in the company’s Fresno, Calif., office. Cardoso recently worked in the Fresno office...
Feb 23 2011 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) and The Institutes is reminding the insurance industry to honor customer service representatives today, designated as Annual...
Feb 22 2011 // IBM wasted no time in parlaying the winning performance of its artificially intelligent Watson on the TV game show “Jeopardy!” into real business. Last week, it announced a deal to commercialize Watson’s...
Feb 22 2011 // The amount the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has paid out in litigation costs as a result of lawsuits stemming from Hurricane Ike claims is far too high, says one Texas lawmaker who’s working on...
Feb 21 2011 // Survey on Agents’ Views on P/C Insurers What are the most critical factors in choosing carriers that agents will use the most? What areas would agents most like to see carriers spend more marketing or co-op...
Feb 21 2011 // It may be the perfect storm that will change the workers’ compensation landscape for decades. Individually, the forces are daunting, but put together the impact could be industry changing. Health care reform,...
Feb 21 2011 // In a little over a year, mega-broker Marsh & McLennan quickly assembled one of the largest independent agencies in the nation, entirely through acquisitions. That entity, Marsh & McLennan agency, targets middle...
Feb 21 2011 // Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part article on compliance with the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act.The Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act (NRRA), Subtitle B, Part I, Dodd-Frank Wall Street...
Feb 21 2011 // The California Insurance Wholesalers Association honored David F. Anderson, chairman of Anderson & Murison, with its Wholesale Industry Award.Anderson was a founding president of CIWA from 1991 to 1993. He served on...
Feb 21 2011 // The New York Senate Committee on Insurance has begun hearing on legislation that would extend insurance agents’ license renewals, allow multiple rating plans for personal lines insurers and clarify laws about...
Feb 21 2011 // Rate Battle War of Words“High commercial auto rates can cause significant harm to small businesses. We believe Progressive’s proposed increase is unjustified and an unfair rate hike on small businesses across...
Feb 21 2011 // With a massive hole in the state’s budget and the looming duty to redistrict, insurance issues are likely to be low priority items for the Texas 82nd Legislature, which began its session in January. Still, nearly 200...
Feb 21 2011 // Just as state lawmakers forge ahead with new legislative goals for 2011, the insurance industry, agents and their lobbyists are doing the same across much of the Northeast.Some states have already seen and continue to see...
Feb 21 2011 // The Iowa Supreme Court sided with an insurance agent in a case involving whether the agent has a duty to advise clients as to the need for insurance coverage about which the clients had not inquired.In considering an...
Feb 18 2011 // Willis Group Holdings announced that six new members have joined Willis Networks, its alliance with local, independent insurance brokers in the UK.Willis Networks is made up of the Willis Commercial Network (WCN), which...
Feb 18 2011 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma (IIAO) is following a number of insurance related measures that have been introduced in the current state legislative session. According to IIAO President and CEO Dan Ramsey,...